The Beatles announce new BBC Album with 37 unreleased performances

Details of The Beatles’ forthcoming BBC album has been announced with a tracklisting including 37 previously unreleased performances.

In total ‘On-Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2’ will consist of 63 tracks, including 23 unreleased recordings of in-studio banter between the band and numerous radio hosts.

The release of the BBC album comes 19 years after ‘Live At The BBC’, which topped the UK artist album charts reaching No. 3, and reached 200 on the Billboard chart in the US.

The two-part compilation CD will appear as a 180-gram vinyl album and will include a 48-page booklet. Since Universal acquired EMI, this will be the first album from The Beatles to be issued on the label.

“There’s a lot of energy and spirit. We are going for it, not holding back at all, trying to put in the best performance of our lifetimes,” said Paul McCartney of the compilation.

The forthcoming album also includes an original Beatles song never previously released, the group’s tribute to the BBC Light Programme radio show Saturday Club, alternative versions of six songs that featured in the 1994 BBC album, and BBC versions of a number of the band’s most famous songs.

All tracks have been mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Guy Massey and Alex Wharton.

Between March 1962 and June 1965, The Beatles have managed to record 275 different musical performances for the BBC.

‘On-Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2’ will be released on November 11. A remastered version of Live At The BBC will also be released on the same day.